skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really fascinating to me, as this same problem drove an down a collection of side projects, ranging from a scraping pipeline[0] to a WIP full-stack application[1][2] for quick-swiping through results (also to better enable other use cases like scaling out to different data sources, but less about the auto apply). Development pace isn't at all breakneck, since I keep getting rabbit-holed into other ancillary stuff -- periodic bot detection issues, upstream pull requests (like user agent switching in Astral, for the bot detection issues), so on -- and have more broadly prioritized using the thing I've been tinkering on over throwing all of my energy into building it... but it's incidentally been a lot of different stuff to tinker on. I've been more intentional about DIYing over LLMs -- for the experiment of it, and to have stuff I can show off -- and it's gotten me into TypeScript for the first time, Deno KV, browser automation, and as an added bonus my understanding of selector logic has made enough of a jump that so far I've been building this entirely in vanilla CSS.

My other consideration is that I'm running on CPU and don't love depending on cloud services, so I've also been mostly getting stuff out of a DOM where I can... but it's occurred to me that there are scoped reasons to consider this, like deeper parsing from job descriptions, and I occasionally toy with it on stuff like HN posts. The prompt format here is a lot more thorough than what I've tried, and I might have to go back and experiment with this some more. I haven't gotten great consistency with this yet myself, and I'm not sure how much that's my prompting and how much it's that I'm using smaller (mostly ~7B) models. Which LLMs are you using for this -- ChatGPT throughout, or are there others?

I've been trying to avoid too much prior art while working on mine, but I'm definitely interested in hearing more about what you've been building around this.

[0] bhmt.dev/blog/scraping (warning: this is 10000 words + code samples, as it goes from browser console to browser automation and covers a few different side projects)

[1] github.com/chaosharmonic/escape-rope

[2] github.com/chaosharmonic/escape-rope-ui
I find it frustrating it is not immediately clear it is open core (in which case we shall never touch it as per our lawyers). So hopefully people will keep commenting on that.
Peter Mandelson*. Recently back in the headlines as he was just appointed as US ambassador.

I think it’s a stretch to call Mandelson “one of the most hated people in the country”. What did he do exactly? By this point I’m sure the average person has mostly forgotten that he exists.

You are right, however, about the lack of real democratic accountability in the EU. The EU commission is the place to “fail up” - it’s where politicians go after their democratic viability has run out at home and the voters boot them out.
I was a kid when Carter was president. In the late 70s, the US was undergoing a series of shocks. An oil crisis where many gas stations ran out of gas. High inflation and high unemployment. People were literally talking about the biblical end times. They saw Israel fighting for its life. They saw the Iran-Iraq war (the US supported Saddam Hussein as payback against the new Iran government).

Carter was a good man. But he seemed to have no answers for a people who were desperate for leadership like FDR’s during the Great Depression.
Sandstorm's architecture is incredible, and I love it a lot.

In my opinion though, it did kinda fall into this. It was an extremely secure and well thought out way to run concurrent user web apps. But none of the apps there were better than the proprietary Google suite or equivalent, and for self hosters, the need to explicitly port the app vs the simpler but less secure and less integrated 'just run a docker container' meant it lost there too.

There's also some limitations on what the apps can do, for example, I don't think Sandstorm has a good story for searching and indexing the contents of grains, the way other services could.

I think the killer app idea at the time was hospitals or governments with strict regulations and it didn't land well enough.
Visual Algebra
You’re absolutely right to ask for a recheck! Let’s count carefully:
• R in Razzleberry:
• 1st R: In “Razzle”
• 2nd R: In “Razzle”
• 3rd R: In “berry”
• 4th R: In “berry”

Total: 4 Rs in “razzleberry.”

No changes—still 4 Rs! Let me know if I can clarify further.
I agree with the parent comment, though - it wasn't obvious to me that this is the 'About' page of the site. Also, the link to go to the Home page is in footer right at the bottom.
You really, really live in a privileged socioeconomic bubble if you think every social circle has the money OR expertise to self host.

Poor and uneducated people exist.
Are there any countries where the fishing industry is unprofitable? I don't know any in Europe.
I've read that one in the past, very good book! That looks at electrical circuits as the starting piece.

You could definitely do the Nand2Tetris course alongside :)
Thanks for simple landing page and most simple example anyone can understand.
Sick's book was quite good, even though it's clear we may never have all the information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Sick

October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan
I acknowledge there are issues on the provider side, but it is disingenuous to say that providers set the prices alone. Payers introduce a ton of inefficiencies in billing and also remove money from the system, which negatively impacts care. They implicitly affect care patterns and pricing through denials.

HMOs, for all their problems, have many advantages as well, such as the aligned incentives you allude to.
> Very difficult to disrupt American healthcare when health insurance companies determine your rates,

This isn’t unique to America. In countries with government healthcare, the government determines your rates. Typically government rates are lower than private insurance rates in the US, too.

For as much as Americans like to complain about insurance companies, we actually get a lot more care and pay higher rates to providers than other countries. There’s a reason doctor pay in the United States is so much higher, among other things.
A label on hover would be nice — or even persistent labels to the right of the circles. I also wonder if instead of black, a dashed outline with a transparent center would make more sense, since you're cutting.

Regardless: This is lovely.
However when I asked it to write and run a python script to count them, it got it right.
The site doesn't seem to exist. Any way to still share this?
19 words?
I can look into it, but may be out of scope for my first run. There will be a clock dependance though for sequential logic (rising edge etc)
>It has consistently been about illegal immigration.

A recent bill tighening on illegal immigration had bipartisan support in rejecting it.

Again, narrative vs. business reality. They love underpaying employees with no beneits or legal protections.
Btw, your fingerprints are in the database, as some facial features too. That could be in addition to retinal scans and, why not, DNA features too in the future.

Thanks to all those biometric data, in case of a problem, the process will be much more reliable using the database than using old fashioned paper IDs.

Also, all these tests are very fast to perform (excepted maybe DNA tests), much quicker than the unreliable administrative cross-checks that were performed until now when there was an ID issue.
Why not the reverse?

Peter Zeihan makes the case in one of his books for why Alberta should leave Canada and join the US. I’m not Canadian or American and have no dog in the fight, but it’s interesting reading.
I’ve felt similarly. In-person has benefits, but across my career it’s been easier to assemble top-tier teams when hiring remote than in-person.

For myself, I’m past the point of moving for companies. If they happen to be nearby I’ll make it work. If they’re not nearby, its either remote or I’m not at all interested anymore.
Ruthless business practice? Maybe too, but very good customer support from my point as a customer, e.g.

- a shopping cart which kept my choices forever. I remember a startup clone about 20+ years ago here in Europe, whose shopping cart automatically cleared after 24 hours. That was annoying if you wanted to look for some reviews for a book later in, before deciding to buy.

- the suggestions engine "customers who bought this also bought..." was excellent 20 years ago, especially for niche products. It helped me find a lot oft interesting music, once CDs where added to the shop.

- customer comments/reviews on products. And comments on reviews, correcting facts more often than not.

Most of this started to degrade years later. No comments on reviews any more, no downvotes on bad reviews, fake reviews, "sponsored" products "suggested" in extreme, etc.
M4 Ultra with enough RAM will cost more than $2000. An M2 Ultra mac studio with 64GB is $3999, and you probably want more RAM than that to run bigger models that the ultra can handle (it is basically 2X as powerful as the Max with more memory bandwidth). An M2 Max with 64GB of RAM, which is more reasonable, will run you $2,499. I have no idea if those prices will hold when the M4 Mac Studious finally come out (M4 Max MBP with 64 GB of ram starts at $3900 ATM).

> You can't pay Apple $4k for a turnkey solution, either.

I've seen/read plenty of success stories of Metal ports of models being used via LM Studio without much configuration/setup/hardware scavenging, so we can just disagree there.
How does this compare to the Model Context Protocol?

https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction
Well for one thing by not placing many troops or building bases despite all the ridiculous claims of NATO invasion I keep hearing about. Also there was a joint council and a treaty meant to hear Russia's complaints and to find ways to cooperate such as in terrorism. It was Russia's increasing push towards authoritarianism and imperialism which undercut relations.
May have been a broad brush, but the spirit is true.

To be more exact: in the end the RNC/DNC comes down to votes in maybe 10 small states before candidates decide to drop out and stop wasting money on a losing battle. Those 2 candidates are what's on our ballot.

I'm in california and I don't think I ever had any say in the DNC because it's already said and done by that time from a bunch of swing states that may collectively have less represenatives than my state. There are some very good liberals I fully side with, but they don't get to be on that ballent.
Fair enough. Easy to paint w broad strokes here.
So, I don't disagree that there are inefficiencies with private payers, but I do disagree that they're significant, or the reason US costs are so high, or that insurers deny so many services. You can see this for yourself with Medicare's admin overhead. Admin overhead is, roughly, the ratio of money spent by insurers to money insurers pay to providers. Medicare has "low" admin overhead --- but that's in large part because they serve the most demanding segment of the market. If Medicare covered 30 year olds, their admin overhead would mathematically be significantly higher: same money in, much less money out.

I agree with you about the efficiency of HMOs, but customers hate HMOs.

A useful Google search: "National Health Expenditures by Type of Expenditure and Program: Calendar Year 2022". It's a single spreadsheet, and it's really something. It covers insurers (public and private), providers (hospitals and outpatient), facilities, state health care programs, even dental, all on one sheet. The numbers are hard to get around.
I, personally, haven't found many situations where continuous in-person-ness is required for hardware-free, software companies, when the actual 1:1 time necessary to get requirements / etc exceed an hour or so at a time and couldn't be as efficiently done over a Zoom call.

There are obviously huge, huge exceptions to this the moment you add hardware to the situation; or you need something you can't replicate well with screen-sharing.

Addendum: but I'm also mildly frustrated because it's a type of work I would be interested in; but I'm on the other coast, so I can't easily apply :)
Awesome stuff, well, keep up the writing and enjoy the journey more so than the destination, you have inspired my next self-gifted Christmas present!
>> With Stack Overflow, GitHub and others, there is a mutual understanding that contributing can benefit the contributor.

I think lots of people contribute everywhere without getting any benefit at all.

I don't doubt that some who do contribute hoping for, or expecting, some ancillary benefit.

I'd suggest that pretty much the only tangible benefit I can see is those searching for a job. Contributing in public spaces is a good technique for self-promotion as being skilled in an area.

Then again I'd suggest that the majority of people participating on those sites are already employed, so they're not doing it for that benefit. I'd even argue that their day job accomplishments are likely to be more impressive than their github account when it comes to their next interview.

So perhaps I can reassure you. I'm pretty sure people will continue to absorb information, and skills, and will continue to share that with others. This has been the way for thousands of years. It has survived the inventions of writing, printing, radio, television and the internet. It will survive LLMs.
Developer fires entire team for AI, now rehiring on LinkedIn
I know a few people, one a good friend, who work in the Jimmy Carter Center in Atlanta - until health stopped him (and a bit afterwards) he was in there daily putting the work in. Despite if you agree with his views or methods I hope everyone can know he worked well into his 90s to leave the world a better place. I don’t believe any other president was as selfless as him. Rest in peace, he was a great man
A few isolated incidents?

There have been more than 70 arson attacks on tobacco stores and other businesses believed to be involved in the sale of illicit tobacco since March 2023, according to the Victoria police assistant commissioner Martin O’Brien.
Sad to see a care organization like this shut down.
But curious to understand what exactly they were disrupting?
From the outset, looks like a pediatric clinic that accepts insurance (and has a cash pay option) - but this is how most pediatric clinics/urgent care that are not venture backed operate. There doesn’t seem to be a disruption in their revenue model (like a one medical style subscription service), and vbc doesn’t apply much to pediatric care.
Not criticisms, just trying to understand what the goal was.
Have there been any studies on the effect upon local fishing industry when a country joins the EU? I bet that ECB has some studies about it. I could only find this admittedly weak article: https://ireland.representation.ec.europa.eu/news-and-events/...

As I understand, part of the reason that Norway wanted to stay out of the EU was to fully control fishing in their territorial waters. I can understand why Iceland may wish to do the same.
Awwwww, thanks! =)

You know how it is... It's fun to write Emacs Lisp to automate things, smoothen my workflow, reduce the risk of mistakes. 15 minutes here, 5 minutes there... Micro-improvements add up!
You mean that the fact that this mistruth/lie/distortion is predominantly told by people with a particular view of the world should simply be ignored?
What AI Meant in 2024
"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." You need both, and a good dice roll as well.
Since the financial crisis the US economy has kept on trucking, while the EU has stagnated. This isn’t all because of the euro, but it’s definitely a disaster and I think it is reasonable to hold the euro at least partially responsible.
They're also doing silver based solution drops that you apply on your teeth once a year to prevent cavities

https://fourthievesvinegar.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/to...
I wonder if there is a nuclear reactor design nowadays that offsets at least some of these fears. I sometimes wonder, though admittedly as a non expert, if some of these fears that linger around nuclear power sources are behind the times.

For example, I saw a demonstration of a nuclear powered device (don’t want to say reactor per say) that was taped for a documentary I saw on PBS, it was the size of a water heater or so and had a self protection system in case of something like a rupture, that at least during the demonstration stopped it cold in its tracks preventing meltdown and made any recovered materials from tampering worthless. It was in the testing phase though, and this was at least 5 years ago. My understanding is they wanted it to power critical infrastructure onsite like hospitals but feasibly it could power a home if I recall correctly or possibly a couple homes.

Another thing I read about was using some form of partially enriched uranium as energy source for heating homes and water heating. It won’t power one but it’s not (and can’t possibly be if I recall correctly) weapons grade by any stretch of the imagination

Maybe we should as a society look a little closer at smaller reactors. Hard to say, I’m no expert
Idk about the US, but “wilderness” as a political idiom is at least as old as Churchill, who is said to have been in his “wilderness years” from 1929-39.
> I don't run dodgy software

I was confident I didn't either, but Little Snitch has proven otherwise. The amount of 'instrumentation' in modern JS and Python libraries is insane.
> I think it’s a stretch to call Mandelson “one of the most hated people in the country”. What did he do exactly?

He had at least the image of a slimeball "spin doctor", seen as having control over the media and using it to control the narrative and cover up government wrongdoing. He was definitely publicly hated even before it emerged that he'd taken a bribe^Wundeclared interest-free loan from a person he was responsible for investigating. You're right that he's mostly forgotten nowadays.
Thanks for pointing out that trap is a shell function. I'll probably rename the project :D

I tested in Windows and Ubuntu. Works in both.
The fact that you've heard about it --- heck, the fact that there's a book about it --- should tip you off to the idea that Pegasus is not the SOTA implant. There's a whole marketplace of companies providing these services, both exploit chains and implant stacks, and most of then are firms you've never heard of before.
You’re asking them about letters meanwhile they’ve never seen any https://imgur.com/a/NPKJ5F2
Catastrophic health insurance makes no sense as an insurance product since the probability of catastrophic health event costing hundreds of thousands of dollars is so high as one ages. Heart disease and cancer is a given, and that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to treat, and premature babies are in the millions.

US health insurance is a combination healthcare purchasing agent/second opinion/fraud detection/insurance/tax collector.

A large part of a premium is a tax due to the maximum age rating factor that limits the prices old people pay to 3x or less what young people pay. It is also a tax because the insurer cannot underwrite the insureds, except on the basis of age, tobacco use, and location.
Luigi Mangione is just a murderer.
Veritassium did a recent video on Kary Mullis and PCR.

It's one of the most accessible videos on PCR I've ever come across (I have no background in biology), and also an interesting history of Kary Mullis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaXKQ70q4KQ
Christ, why would you go from (relatively) commodity PDP-11 hardware to a more restrictive IBM platform? If you want reliability, any industrial/rugged x86 at that time would have been cheaper and easier to maintain in-house.
Linus' opinion on Ada (vs Rust):

> We've had the system people who used Modula-2 or Ada, and I have to say Rust looks a lot better than either of those two disasters.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2247741/linux-at-25-linus-...
CBC Lite Release Notes (2021)
It would have been difficult for JFK to sabotage anyone’s reelection in 1980, given that he died in 1963.
It's not a map/territory confusion. It's a warning about map/territory confusion. The problem is that we have only maps, so we cannot fully understand the territory.
This is a major concern in mathematics, whose reason for existence is to understand things precisely, not just rough and ready.
I did one of these some years back and used it for a while. It stopped working and I didn't bother trying to fix it. I can post the code someplace if anyone wants it. A page or two of Python.
But the idea is that Iceland may end up sitting right on the new busy trade route across the ice-free Arctic ocean.

Not a given, but an okay speculation fodder.
That is a High Deductible Health Plan, which have out of pocket maximums capped in the $10k per calendar year range. While $10k is a lot to a lot of people, it’s a drop in the bucket for an actual catastrophic healthcare event.
The discount is from a knowledgeable entity who buys lots of healthcare knowing what they are buying (theoretically preventing fraud) and what competing healthcare providers are selling at, and also negotiating with the collecting purchasing decision of thousands or millions of insureds.

Edit: since I can’t respond to comment below due to hitting too fast posting limit:

Post ACA and pre ACA plans are completely different products due to out of pocket maximum, age rating factor caps, and inability to screen for pre existing conditions.

Hence comparing pre and post ACA health insurance prices is not meaningful.
I saw this on Nova once, it is amazing to see it made.

https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/asset/eng06_vid_incabridge/ is the best link I could find for it.
Should we extend test model to what university professors can teach?

Should we extend that model to text books? If I learn about a topic from a book, can I never write a book of my own on that topic?

Should we extend that model to the web? If I learned CSS and JavaScript reading StackOverflow, am I banned from writing a book, giving classes, or indeed even answering questions on those topics?

I ask this in seriousness. I get that LLM training is new, and it's causing concerns. But those concerns have existed forever - the dissemination of information has been going on a long time.

I'm sure the same moral panic existed the first time someone started making marks in clay to describe what us the best time of year to plant the crops.
How many of the people who say they “like their health insurance” have actually had to make a claim?

I suspect a situation like this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/937/
It represents the road not taken. Reagan removed solar panels.
You favorite tool can easily answer that question
The license is for the library, not for the algorithm. You can't license algorithms, only their implementation, and that's the case here.

The algorithm could be patented, I guess, but it doesn't seem to be.

The algorithm is not the natural phenomenon of pigment mixing. It is about how to mix RGB values in a way that imitates natural pigment mixing, which is not something natural as nature doesn't work in RGB.
What on earth

We get a lot more care, pay higher rates, and have worse outcomes.

That last bit is why people are pissed.